[Sca-cooks] automatic chicken plucker

[Olwen the Odd]

>Olwen the Odd wrote:
>
> > I have no idea what an Epilady thing is so I can't tell you if it's the
> > same.  An automatic chicken plucker is a machine that looks a little
>like an
> > old mimeograph machine, in that it has a largeish drum that turns.  The
>drum
> > has a bunch of finger length rubber "fingers" on it.  You plug it in,
>turn
> > it on, scald your dead birds and hold them close enough to the "fingers"
>so
> > as to have the feathers knocked off.  You must keep rotating the bird to
> > different positions and have to keep steady on the proximity to the
> > "fingers" else you get the skin all ripped or else you end up having to
>do a
> > lot of hand plucking for cleanup.  It's quite a site actually.
>Feathers,
> > blood and sweat flying everywhere!
> > Olwen
>
>Sounds like an Epilady to me! :-/
>
>Epilady is this thing that came out a few years back- it has a set of
>rotating spring coils, and the idea was that the coils would catch the
>hair (legs, basically, or at least that was what they marketed the thing
>for) and rip it out. And then it would stay gone for awhile until the
>follicles recovered. Of course, there were quite a few jokes about the
>screams when one was in use. I never had the guts, myself. Rather risk
>the occasional razor nick.
>
>'Lainie

ICK!!  Well, I suppose it's a good thing I don't have to go through all
that.  It gives me the shivers just _THINKIN_ about having to yank or scrape
hair off.  With my genentics, I've never had to deal with it.
Olwen

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